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1. "Candy Smash legend" developers performance than expected share price plunged 20%

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Social and mobile gaming company King Digital Entertainment less than expected in the second quarter and lowered its outlook for the fiscal year 2014, according to Reuters, which was dragged down by losses such as the "Candy Smash Saga". In Tuesday, King's share price plunged 20% per cent after trading.

As of the eastern time of Tuesday 18:34 (Beijing time Wednesday 6:34), King's shares fell 3.75 US dollars to 14.45 U.S. dollars in trading after the transaction, down 20.6%. King's shares rose 0.03 U.S. dollars in regular trading in the NYSE in Tuesday, at $18.20, or 0.17%.

2. Cortana will become the key function of Windows 9

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Microsoft officially released its virtual voice assistant Cortana to the Windows Phone 8.1 platform earlier this year, and Cortana is likely to be integrated into Windows 9, according to media reports. In the next generation of Windows systems, Cortana will provide the same voice control and intelligent recommendations.

It is reported that Cortana has been added to earlier versions of Windows 9, and now Microsoft is fine-tuning it. Unlike the Windows Phone 8.1 version, Cortana will run as a small window in Windows 9, but the basic functionality is unchanged. When Windows 9 is officially released, Cortana is expected to consolidate it in depth, which means that she will have the ability to access all data stored on the computer based on the user's authorization. But at the same time, Cortana may also bring some new features.

3.Uber Telltale: Lyft was pulled into "nuclear war" without acquisition

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Earlier, Uber's rival, Lyft, has revealed that Uber employees have booked and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft taxi services as their clients since last October. This is not the work of one or two rogue employees, Lyft claims 177 Uber employees in the United States to participate in the program. This kind of false request service causes Lyft driver's efficiency to be greatly reduced, pushes more users to Uber. Not only did the Lyft company lose heavily, but Lyft's drivers ' income was also greatly affected because they needed to spend more time and more oil money.

Now, Uber has responded. A spokesman for the company said to the New York Times that Lyft sued Uber only because we refused to buy it.

4.Twitter announces launch of video advertising service to fill in short board

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Twitter, which seeks to broaden the company's revenue stream, announced in Tuesday that it had decided to launch a video advertising service after discovering video clips embedded in Twitter messages that attracted users ' attention and interacted with users.

In a blog published in Tuesday, Twitter said the video advertising service being tested would allow marketers to pay for users to click on the video ads on Twitter each time they clicked. "Video is a big business for Twitter," said Brian Blau, a market research firm Gartner analyst Blaire Brau, for Twitter to launch a video advertising service. The video is currently the biggest missing item in the Twitter product. Facebook is now ahead of Twitter in the video world. ”

5. Samsung Virtual reality blindfold spy photo exposure: The shape of Google Cardboard

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Samsung will release the Galaxy Note 4 o'clock in early September to showcase the rumored virtual reality patch, according to The Verge, the US science and technology blogger. The blog also released an espionage photo of the product.

The patch, named Project Moonlight, looks something like Google's cardboard, a box with a lens that can use the smartphone display to create an immersive experience for the user. This shows that the modern smartphone used by the large size of the Super HD display and rich sensors to meet the needs of fully functional virtual reality system.

6. Apple HealthKit will work with a number of medical providers

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In Tuesday, Reuters quoted sources as saying that Apple was discussing with a number of medical service providers and medical records systems to collaborate on the upcoming HealthKit platform. HealthKit will be released this fall with iOS 81. The goal of the platform is to become a user's personal health data hub. Sources say the current partnership with Apple includes Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, and medical record provider Allscripts and Epic Bae.

Apple has said that HealthKit will be a third-party open framework for data storage and aggregation services. Users will be able to obtain this data through a related application Tiyatien. Apple hopes that HealthKit will become the hub of information gathered by Third-party healthcare applications and hardware.

7. Google or will be the photo service from the Google + Independent

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Google may also be able to separate the award-winning Google + photos photo service from Google + in the future, according to foreign media Bloomberg, after separating hangouts from Google + as a stand-alone service. As one of the most popular features of Google +, Google + photos is popular with many users for its advantages.

About 23 million of the 8.Twitter accounts are robots.

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Twitter says the number of active users is growing, but the problem is that not every account is a live real person. In this social network, in addition to the real-name certification of the stars, the number is actually those who do not know the so-called, advertising information or seismic reports, and other content of the robot. In a recent update, officials acknowledge that by the end of June, the number of robots in all its active accounts reached 8.5%, roughly 23 million and a half.

9.Siri founder to build Viv The times of the past virtual assistant

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Apple acquired Siri in 2010, and many of its technicians joined Apple and continued to develop virtual assistants. IOS has evolved and Siri's future has changed, and Siri's co-founder Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer left the company and pursued other opportunities. After leaving the Apple, the two Siri founders were reunited and formed the Viv Lab, and now the VIV Lab is developing a new virtual assistant software that could change the way we interact with the device in the future.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)